SPECIAL ORDER
Around the turn of the last century the Lewis Publishing Company of New York City perfected a formula for presenting and preserving the genealogies/biographies of eminent or successful citizens throughout much of the Eastern half of the United States. The Lewis technique was to employ a credible authority, who would himself supervise a stable of writers and editors, in the task of garnering and editing biographical/genealogical material, including photographs, from hundreds of subjects whose lives and family histories fell within the geographical range of a particular publishing project, be it local, statewide, or regional. Lewis Publishing Company would eventually publish numerous multi-volume mugbooks (so-called because of their subjects' portraits), a number of which have been reprinted by Clearfield Company. Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey is the latest to bear the Clearfield imprint. This four-volume work begins with an informative historical essay
Francis Bazley Lee
(1910), 2000, paper, illustrated, 1694 pp.
ISBN: 9780806349557
102-9258
